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Ok, so this is a cliche used in online comedic review shows, and it's when the game, movie or other like piece of media being covered- usually low in quality in the opinion of the reviewer- comes alive and encompasses evil in some form, usually trying to either force the critic to review itself or straight-up harm or kill the reviewer (sometimes maybe even both). It's been used to death, almost certainly to the point of being a trope of sorts. For instance, James Rolfe uses it quite a lot- a famous example would be the Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.) episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd, where R.O.B. turns all of the games on James Rolfe's shelf into Gyromite and Stackup before proceeding to terrorize the city. Another one is in Jon Tron's review of "Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts," in which the game straps him to his chair and forces him to play it forever.
Is there already a documented trope of this? If not then someone should almost definitely create one (I'd offer to do so if that's the case). Also, I put the question under "Videogame", but only because there weren't any general options of any sort.